Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. , Attorney-at-Law Rensselaeb. - Indiana Practices |in thb Courts of Jasper and adorning counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court H ouse- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaeb, - - - Indiana Practice in allthe Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay p articular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectlon.s a. Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT-LAW and notary public, , upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, A TTORNEY-ATvL AW, Rensselae , Ind. EST'Office Over Makeever’a Bank. May 21. 1885. R W. SN YDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.

W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty.,^] OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. DD. DALE, . ATTORNEY-AT LAW MONTICELI.O, - INDIANA. Bank building, np stairs. • J. H. LOUGHRIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physieian & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special attec lion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ClflMlS 9 BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwigoins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Cashier. TAOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: J J Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Moneyloancd on farms at lovvsst rates and on most favorable terms. April 1885. ALFRED U COY. THOMAS THOMPSONHanking Mouse OF A- McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson, RankersRensselacr, Ind- Does general .Ranking bu, siness Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points k Money loa interest paid on specified time deposits. Office same place as old firm of A. McCo & Tbnapsoß. aprl4,’Bl

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JULY 21. 1885. U

WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL

1. —Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. —Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses are least4. —Where things are just as represented, or. all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send or special terms and try the Cenral Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS,

Woe Unto Man.

There is but little in life to lire for. The world is a hollow mockery, full of troubles and bad piano players. We go forth in themorninfl full of hope, and come home at night full of bad whisky. We dabble in politics and bet all our wealth 2 on the leading man and the other fellow getteth elected and we are left to mourn. We run for office and our friends manage for us and spend our money, and behold we come out badly scooped financially. We marry for wealth and our girl’s old dad assigns. We deny ourselves many things in order to lay up some cash in the bank, and the cashier fleeth unto Canada. And in an evil hour when we dream not of it, the merchant presenteth a bill for our wife’s new bonnet, and the farm and the stock goeth under mortgage to pay it. Woe unto man! Of how little consequence in his joy. In infancy he is full of colic and catnip; in youth he goeth about with a thorn in his heel. In the evening of life he lieth down full of rheumatism, aches and anti-btllious pills. The places that once knew him know him only by the promissory notes and accounts he has left unpaid. And this is the end of man. In youth he daces into the ring, eager to knock somebody else out, but the first thing he knoweth he is ornamented with a black eye. He cometh in raiment and a standing collar, and at noontime he goeth about with one suspender and the seat of his pants patched with a old sock. He torch in the procession, and wlioopeth up for his party, and behold the man who staid at home is appointed to office. Such is the career of a man: Lo! in an hour when he dreameth not of it, a breecliy mule kicketh him athwart the center, and he dietli.

Not So Remarkable.

One day a soleinn mail entered a Washington saloon, and asked: “Is this the saloon where Booth got a drink of brandy before killing the president?’ “Yes, sir.” “Have you any of the same brandy left? “Yes, sir.” “Give me some of the same brandy out of the same decanter.” It is given to him and he puts down the 50 cents and the liquor. ‘ls that the same brandy that Booth drank that night?” “Yes, sir.” “And then he went out and shot the president?” “Yes, sir.” “I don’t wonder. One drink of that brandy would .make a man go out and* kill his grandmother,”— N. Y. Mail and Express. Fifteen tons of grasshoppers’ comprising, it is estimated, 60,000,000 separate insects, were captured at the Natoma Vineyard, near Folsom, California. by drowning ill the irregating ditches. Curled maple is only an accidental form of sugar maple, in which the grain is beautifully contorted. This form is highly prized by cabinet makers, and SI,OOO has been given for a single tree. A bullet travels a mile in three and two-tenths seconds.

Senator Beck, accompanied by a beautiful young lady, called upon Mr. Aleck Boteler, of West Virginia, pardon clerk in the department of justice, a day or tw r o ago, to urge the pardon of the brother of the young lady referred to, who had been convicted of the infraction of one of the United States statutes. Mr. Boteler did all it was possible for him to do in the matter, and gave a printed form c f recommendation for pardon to the senator to take to the attorneygeneral f^ 1 his signature, if he would approve it. The lady remained in Mr. Boteler’s room. In a short time the senator returned and handed the paper back to Mr. Boteler. The latter hesitated about opening it, lest the lady might faint if the pardon were denied, and might do the same if •it were recommended. But, fiually opening it, he saw the recommendation had been made. Just as he expected, the lady swooned; but recovering herself in a moment, she arose, and opening'her arms, adva ced toward him. He backed behind his desk, and, pointing to Mr. Beck,said: “Him! him!” But when* she turned to Mr. Beck he retreated toward the door, and pointing to Mr. Boteler, repeated the la’tor’s words, saying: “Him! him!” The lady by that time had regained her self-possession entirely, and advancing toward neither, expressed her thanks to both. —-

Principal.

Louisville, Ky,—ln the city court recently Judge B. t*. Thompson created a profound sensation during the trial of Edward Early, a fireman, for assault and battery, by administering the following rebuke to Richard Bache, a prominent politician: “Mr. Bache, on last Thursday you approached me in a manner which not only reflected on the court, l ut was an insult to myself. You claimed to be a political factor in the Ninth Ward, and intimated that if I didn’t want to antagonize the elements there I wo’d deal leniently with Ed. Early. My purpose in bringing you here is to stamp your conduct in a manner which will show my disapproval. I know it has been a custom with some people to approach the court in the way ou did, but you are a man of intelligence and ought to know better. I now intend to make an example of you. The court can not keep itself free from the suspicion of unrighteous practices if it would permit itself to be approached as you did me on the occasion referred to. Mr. Bache, you stand committed to jail for six hours, which is the very limit imposed by the law for such conduct.” Judge Thompson’s tone, in pronouncing these words, implied a feeling of. regret that he could not inflict heavier punishment.

New York World: Seventy-five gray-clad ■ members of R. E. Lee camp, No. 1, of confederate veterans, arrived in this city yesterday morning. They are to be the guests of Seward Post, No. 37, Grand Army of the Republic, with headquarters at Auburn, in this state, a committee from which post met them on their arrival. One of the veterans, speaking to a World reporter, said: “We came by invitation of Seward Post, who extended it to us some weeks ago. By our presence with our former adversaries in arms on the Fourth day of July Ave mean to emphasize the idea of honest and heartfelt fxaternity as existing between those who fought. Next year we shall entertain our kind friends of the north at Richmond.” The camp left for Auburn last night at 6 o’clock. They will spend tbe Fourth in Auburn and on Sunday visit Niagara Falls, re-“ turning home on Monday. - A eurtosity at Rockford, 111., is a young negress with a luxuriant growth of auburn ringlets.

Afraid of a Girl's Gratitude.

A Rebuke in Open Court.

The Blue and the Gray.

Snake-Killing Dogs.

“What sort of a dog do yon call that ?” inquired a reporter of a plenty* of-time-and-nothing-to-do-with-it sort of a person, who with a brace of dogs, had overtaken him on the Kingsbridge road. “I reckon ye’d never guess,” said the Virginian. “He ain’t a pointer nor a setter. He might be taken for a Spitz, but he ain’t; and, I reckon, the only one m the United States. I raised him down yonder in Culpepper County,Virginny; and talk about snakes! why, jest look at him at the very mention of the word.” The little dog certainly had been seized with what the reporter judged from personal experience to be a regular Virginia chill. His ears stood erect, and every lash of his tail nearly threw him out of plumb. . “Just come over yonder on the hill side,” continued the owner, “and see what lie's good for.” The reporter followed him oyer the fence, the little .black dog leading and -making for a slight declivity covered with rocks. “That’s a likely spot for his game,” laughed the owner. In a moment the excited animal was tearing away at the stones, utterly short yelps,* while his companion, a fine fox hound, stood by looking stolidly on. The small dog soon struck hard pan, judging from the noise, and out writhed a goodly-sized garter-snake. The next moment the reptilo was ten feet in the air, and the tosser, bracing himself, grabbed him by the neck as it came down. Then ensued a wrestling that defies description. He shook the snake so that he lashed his own sides unmercifully, a proceeding which seemed only to enrago him the more. Now he was thrown off his feet, lying on his side; now he was rolling in and out among the rocks, yelping, snorting and throwing the gravel about, while his master danced around in delight, aud the fox-hound bayed in evident rapture. The snake, though a good-sized one, stood this treatment and gave out. Then the dog carefully crunched every rib and bone of the snake, down to the tail, laid the defunct reptile at his master’s feet, made his “how d’ye,” and looked again at the heap of stones with an eager air. “Shake ’em out,” said the owner, and for half an hour the black bunch of dog flesh literally waked snakes in that l<r cality, and killed six of the reptiles that had been aroused from their winter sleep. “Oh, he’s a caution to snakes,” said his owner, tossing the dog a lump of sugar; “but these snakes don’t show him up, though. You ought so see him tackle a moccasin. See this collar? Rattles ? Sure’s your born. That rattle represents the last of five rattlesnakes tossed in Culpepper County; and talk of moccasins! he’B at home with a nest of them.” “When did he develop the taste ?” “From birth, I reckon; but he knocked around my place for a year before I fairly sized him up. We considered him of no account, but one day a circus came along with one of these yere snake charmers, and the girl ’lowed her snake hadn’t eaten for six months. The long and short of it was she offered a dollar for the pup, and I made the sale, declining the invite to see the fun, as she called the feeding. Wall,” continued the Virginian with a roar of laughter, in which the little dog joined by showing his teeth, “the next morning I looked out of my window at sunrise, and there a-rushing through my simlin patch was that yere snake charmer. She came up all a-standing under the window, and I’m dog-goned If she didn’t tongue-lash me till 'loved I had enough. She had a deac boa-constrictor about ten feet long over her arm, which she wanted me to come down and pay for. But I didn’t, though she sued me for selling her a wild dog, as she called him, but it didn’t cost me a picayune. You see she chucked the dog in, and, as I heard from a cady butcher, site hadn’t loosed her hold before the dog had the snake for all he was worth. He got his fore leg broke in the wrastle, but when the} tore ’em apart he started for home, and there he is.”— New York Sun.

An Alcoholic Trance.

A remarkable case —that of a physician of some prominence in this citywill furnish a clearer conception of what is meant by alcoholic trance than could be done by pages of abstract description. This gentleman inherited from liis father a tendency to periodical indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, which never attacks him unless he has performed an important operation, lost a patient by death, or encountered some crisis in his affairs. The first symptom is a sense of nervous prostration, followed by an inexorable craving for brandy, which, if resolutely denied at the moment, waxes more and more imperious, until denial is out of the question. Tired out with the struggle, he yields at last and takes a mere thimbleful of cognac—the beverage especially craved at such times. The drop of cognac is the signal for the mental transformation that follows. Sometimes he shuts himself up in his

room with a bottle of brandy at In* elbow, denies himself alike to visitors and to patients, and indulges in a protracted and solitary symposium—if that term may be applied to a bout in which no seoond person is included. Generally, when he emerges from his room and his trance he has no knowledge of what has taken place. He remembers that he did not feel exactly well and took a nip of brandy; but from the moment of that event until he awoke as from a troubled dream, memory is a perfect blank. At other times, instead of shutting himself up in solitude with his bottle, he attends to business as usual, collecting and paying bills, giving and taking receipts, banking, visiting patients and prescribing for them as lucidly and correctly as though in his normal condition—and all this without exciting a suspicion that he is not in his proper mind, his conversation being as consecutive and coherent as ever, and his manner the same as ordinary. He continues in this condition sometimes for a whole day, retires to bed, and wakes up the next morning without the least recollection of the .events of the day before; not even the vague reminiscences of a troubled dream remaining to mark the period of trance through which he has so recently passed. : —New York Times.

The Economical Mice of Iceland.

Dr. Henderson, in hia Travels, gives hts testimony to the correctness of tint f opular belief amongst the natives oi celand, of the remarkable inßtinot of a species of mouse, the accounts of have been doubted by some naturalists. He says: “This animal, which is supposed by Olafsen and Povelsen (writers on zoology) to be a variation of the wood, or economical mouse, displays a surprising degree of sagacity, both in conveying home its provisions, and the manner in which it stocks them in the magazine appropriated for that purpose. In a country, says Mr. Pennant, where berrios are but thinly dispersed, these little animals are obliged to cross rivers to make their distant forages, their return with the boo'y to the magazines, they are obliged to repass the stream; of which Mr. Olafsen (Olafsen and Povelsen) gives the following account: ‘The party, which consists of from six to ten, select a flat piece of some light substance on which they place the berries on a heap in the middle ; then, by their united force, bring it to the water’s edge, and, after launching it, embark, and place temselves round the heap, with the heads joined over it, and their backs to the water, their tails pendant in the stream, serving the purpose' of rudders.’ Mr. Hooker, in his ‘Tour in Iceland,’ ridicules the idea of any such process, and says, that every sensible Icelander laughs at the account as fabulous.” Dr. Henderson then goes on to corroborate the statements of Olafsen and Pennant: “Having been apprised of the doubts that were entertained on this subject, before setting out on my second excursion I made a point of inquiring of different individuals as to the reality of the account, and lam happy in being able to say, that it is now established as an important fact in natural history, by the testimony of two eye witnesses of unquestionable voracity, the clergyman of Briamslmk, and Madame Benedictson, of Stickesholm, both of whom assured mo that they had seen the expedition performed repeatedly. Madame B. in particular recollected having spent a whole afternoon, in her younger days, at the margin of a small lake on which these skillful navigators had embarked, and amused herself and her companions by driving them away from the sides of the lake as they approached them. I was also informed that they make use of dried mushrooms as sacks, in which they convey their provisions to the river, and thence to their homes. Nor is the structure of their nests less remarkable. From the surface of the ground a long passage runs into the earth, similar to that of the Icelandic houses, and terminates in a large and deep hole, intended to receive any water that may find its way through the passage, ana serving at the same time as a place for their novel craft. About two-thirds of the passage, in two diagonal roads, lead to their sleeping apartment and the magazine, which they always contrive to keep from wet.”— The Eye.

Vkal Jjoaf. —Three pounds of lean, raw veal, and one - half pound of salt pork, chopped fine. If you have an accommodating butcher he will chop it free of but it is best to select the meat yourself and see it weighed, for it should not contain any grrnle or stringy pieces. It must be chopped very fine, then mix thoroughly with it six small crackers rolled, two eggs, a piece of butter nean ly the size of an egg, a teaspoon of pepper, one small tablespoon of salt, a little sage or any other* herb you may jpre-\ fer to use for flavor. Pack tightly m a deep, square tin, cover with bits of butter, sprinkle cracker crumbs on the top and bake slowly for two hours. When cold slice it fturnly. Itis very nice for lunch or. supper. .]

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